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B-407573 1 (2013-01-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpha0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Ac ;tabilty I integrilty I Reiiabikty of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: URS Federal Support Services, Inc. File: B-407573 Date: January 14, 2013 Thomas 0. Mason, Esq., Francis E. Purcell, Jr., Esq., and Christopher J. Kimball, Esq., Cooley LLP, and Thomas C. Papson, Esq., and Jason A. Carey, Esq., McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, for the protester. Marvin K. Gibbs, Esq., COL Barbara E. Shestko, and Sharon A. Jenks, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that solicitation which anticipates the issuance of a task order that contains a mixture of fixed-price, time-and-materials, and cost reimbursement contract line items is defective because it improperly creates a de facto fixed-price, level-of-effort contract in violation of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) guidance applicable to such contracts at FAR § 16.207 is denied where the protester does not show that the agency's choice of contract type is impermissible or in violation of FAR guidance; contracting agencies have the primary responsibility for determining their needs and the most appropriate methods for procuring them. DECISION URS Federal Support Services, Inc., of Austin, Texas, protests the terms of task order fair opportunity notice (FON) No. 13-DA-01 2, issued by the Department of the Air Force for contract field team (CFT) logistics support services at the Tobyhanna Army Depot (TYAD), Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania. URS asserts that the FON's stated requirements, including the chosen contract type, are improper. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND In 2008, the Air Force awarded indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) type contracts for CFT logistics support services to six contractors. The CFT contracts,

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